361 Full-Color Allover Patterns for Artists and Craftspeople

361 Full-Color Allover Patterns for Artists and Craftspeople
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2012-07-04
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0486142299

These royalty-free full-color allover patterns include numerous subjects and styles from 15th-century through 20th-century sources — geometrics, florals and foliates, animal and nature motifs, other decorative repeat patterns.

Magnificent Mosaics Coloring Book

Magnificent Mosaics Coloring Book
Author: Jessica Mazurkiewicz
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2009-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0486469891

Thousands of years ago, the Greeks and Romans introduced a style of design that began with simple pebbles and colored stones. Today, mosaic art is a time-honored craft treasured throughout the world. Spiraling pinwheels, exploding geometrics, undulating waves, rhythmic zig-zags, and circular pathways are just some of the intriguing motifs you'll find in this imaginative collection of thirty images. Sure to satisfy creative colorists, the showcase will also serve as a source of inspiration for designers.

Holidays Around the World

Holidays Around the World
Author: Joan O'Brien
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2006-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0486451615

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in Mexico, march along the Champs-Élysées on Bastille Day, and visit Israel during Hanukkah as you circle the globe to observe 30 festivities.

835 Victorian Designs and Emblems

835 Victorian Designs and Emblems
Author: Palm & Fechteler (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0486417344

This selection of royalty-free designs from a rare 1882 catalog of transferable designs for carriages and buggies includes ornamental crests, coats of arms, shields, mottos, and a wealth of other eye-catching designs — many incorporating dogs, handsome steeds, various birds, wild beasts, mythical creatures, and other eye-catching images.

Animals

Animals
Author: Jim Harter
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-05-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486318982

Selected for its visual impact and ease of use, this outstanding collection of wood engravings presents over 1,000 species of animals in extremely lifelike poses. Includes mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, and other invertebrates.

Inca Designs

Inca Designs
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2014-05-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0486498492

A treasury of hard-to-find Inca artwork, this compilation features hundreds of striking designs. The images are drawn from the collections of a 19th-century anthropologist whose expeditions to Peru yielded a remarkable store of artifacts that reside today in museums throughout Germany. Designs, paintings, and relief representations depict ancient people, animals, and rituals. Reprint of selections from Ancient Peruvian Art, Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1902–03.

Women

Women
Author: Jim Harter
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2012-12-19
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0486132137

Lush allegorical ladies, Grecian maids and Victorian maidens, Indians, Japanese, dancers, housewives, courtesans; women dancing, smiling, working, weeping, flirting — an unusually rich sourcebook of poses, costumes, clothing, everyday life. 488 illustrations.

Food and Drink

Food and Drink
Author: Jim Harter
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2012-12-03
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0486137651

Over 350 illustrations of different foods, people eating, utensils, banquets, menus, wine lists. Beautifully reproduced 19th-century line drawings depict every conceivable activity concerned with the preparation, display, and consumption of food and drink.

1300 Real and Fanciful Animals

1300 Real and Fanciful Animals
Author: Matthäus (the Younger) Merian
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2012-12-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486132765

Quadrupeds, snakes, mollusks and crustaceans, birds, fish, and insects depicted realistically and fancifully, plus such fantasy creatures as unicorns, dragons, and basilisks. Indispensable volume of royalty-free graphics for commercial artists.

2,286 Traditional Stencil Designs

2,286 Traditional Stencil Designs
Author: H. Roessing
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2012-08-02
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0486155544

Masterfully executed designs in reproductions of two rare catalogs: ornamental borders, corners and frames with intricate floral and foliated patterns, architectural ornaments and design elements, religious symbols and figures, much more.